PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for March, 2003: Re: Was I misdiagnosed

Re: Was I misdiagnosed

From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 9 Mar 2003 08:35:05 +0100

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Hello Sandra,

Although I am no lady (being a male ob/gyn), I can answer your questions. First of all, from what you have written, you have barely been diagnosed. You do not mention any hormone tests which should have been performed before any medication given. Your tentative diagnosis is in my mind something such as experienced after discontinuing the pill: which is so called post pill amenorrhoea. Naturally you are not post pill, but the situation is very much similar. I suppose what you describe as depo is Depo-Provera, the injecatble contraceptive. This switches off the ovulatory axis and after discontinuing it, it failes to switch on. The condition is characterised by low estrogens and low gonadotropins. So you should have a hormonal work-up in the first place and treatment second. For your info

Sam

> Hello ladies, I thought I'd get some opinions from people who know alot
> about PCOS. So here is my story. I got off depo two years ago after
> being on it for 5 years. I started on depo when I was 16 before that I
> had regular cycles. Well after 6 months off depo, we started trying to
> get pregnant. At 9 months off depo, I had my first period. So we
> started monitoring basil temps and such. At one year we went to the
> doctor who started me on clomid. I was on clomid 50mg for one cycle
> without ovulation so I was sent to an infertility doctor. Please keep
> in mind that they didn't end that one cycle of clomid. I finally got
> into the infertility clinic and they did an ultrasound about 5 weeks
> after I was supposed to ovulate on clomid (no period in between this
> time) and he found large groups of 50 developing eggs. My other
> symptoms during this cycle was that I had my body hair growing a bit
> thick at that point. So I was labeled PCOS and given the insulin meds.
> They made me insanely sick. So they started with higher doses of clomid
> and injections. I finally ovulated after all that but then my husband
> (who is in the military) got orders overseas to a hostile area. So now
> I am 2 years off depo, I just had another period naturally and been not
> as hairy so to speak during the past year with no treatment. So my
> question is do I really have PCOS? If so why do I not have any symptoms
> besides lack of a period? Should I get a second opinion? Thanks
> everyone,
> sandra
>

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